Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Classroom meetings

Classroom meetings are a great habit to develop. They provide an opportunity for students to engage in important conversations. Although I have used classroom meetings, I have never developed a formal stategy for how to run them. The link is to a chapter from a book by Marvin Marshall about how to run classroom meetings. I really enjoyed this chapter. Classroom Meetings

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Useful link for Biodiversity Grade 6

Great ideas

Eddie and the Hagfish

This short video is excellent as a real attention grabber for the biodiversity unit. Thiese creatures have an interesting adaptation Eddie and the Hagfish